An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . risoners, by reason of which large numbers of them, to wit, one hun-dred, lost their arms, and many of them, to wit, about the number oftwo hundred, were so injured that they soon thereafter died. All ofwhich the said Henry Wirz well knew and maliciously intended, andin aid of the then existing rebellion against the United States, withthe view to assist in weakening and impairing
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . risoners, by reason of which large numbers of them, to wit, one hun-dred, lost their arms, and many of them, to wit, about the number oftwo hundred, were so injured that they soon thereafter died. All ofwhich the said Henry Wirz well knew and maliciously intended, andin aid of the then existing rebellion against the United States, withthe view to assist in weakening and impairing the armies of theUnited States, and in furtherance of the said conspiracy, and with thefull knowledge, consent, and connivance of his conspirators aforesaid,the said Wirz then and there did. Other specifications charged him with murdering prisoners withhis own hands on the slightest provocations. The court found him guilty of all these charges, and sentenced himto death by hanging. The President approved the sentence, and thewretch was hung in the yard of the Old Capitol prison, at Washing-ton, on Friday, the 10th of November. The keepers of other rebel prisons, equally guilty with Wirz, arenow awaiting triaU. CHAPTER LYIII. CANADA UNDER THE BRITISH. HE history of Canada under the Frenothas been given in a previous part ofthis work; and for an account of itsconquest by the British, the reader isreferred to Chapter XXY. The popu-lation at the time of the conquest wasabout seventy thousand, divided in apoor yet much respected nobility, andthe (Adfivators—race frugal, industrious, and moral. General Mar- 769
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